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On June 24th, Mexican Undersecretary of Health Hugo Lopez-Gatel reported that coronavirus cases would peak this week, that the pandemic would end in Mexico in October, and that Mexican cases had been on a plateau for 22 days already. He…

2020 was supposed to be a year of renaissance for Brazil. Since 2015, the largest economy of South America has been stagnating, with GDP dropping by 3.6% in 2015 and by 3.4% in 2016, and only slowly recovering between 2017 and 2019. In…

The British government did not have a “good crisis”. On a raft of metrics, the UK’s coronavirus outbreak ranks among the worst in Europe, if the not the worst altogether. To date, official counts have recorded 300,000 coronavirus cases and…

Trust as a currency, collaboration as a method, sharing as an aspiration: looking backwards, it is easy to say that, just under a decade ago, we were a little too naive in welcoming the sharing economy as a new economic paradigm. Even…

The world’s epicenter, its largest economy and  geopolitical superpower, is burning from east to west, and from north to south. The fire is engulfing all of its major cities - to varying degrees but with no exception - with protests varying…